I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.
God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.
The suffering of the Christian or anyone else in this world is never ultimately an accident. All suffering is within the pale of divine sovereignty. All suffering comes within the broader context of the sovereignty of God.
As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.
The prayer of faith is a prayer of trust. The very essence of faith is trust.
If an unjust law is passed and enforced, then anyone coerced to comply with the law is a victim of injustice.
Satan’s chief device of temptation is to attack the truth of God.
Those who understand God’s sovereignty have joy even in the midst of suffering, a joy reflected on their very faces, for they see that their suffering is not without purpose.
Our lives say much more about how we think than our books do. The theories we preach are not always the ones we actually believe. The theories we live are the ones we really believe.
At the fall, we became alienated not only from God and other people but also from ourselves.
Prayer is not simply a soliloquy, a mere exercise in therapeutic self-analysis, or a religious recitation. Prayer is discourse with the personal God Himself.
I cannot read God’s mind, however I can read God’s Word.
It is easy to get faith into our heads. It is hard to get faith into our bloodstream.
If we are to be biblical, then, the issue is not whether we should have a doctrine of predestination or not, but what kind we should embrace.
We can no more assist the Holy Spirit in the quickening of our souls to spiritual life than Lazarus could help Jesus raise him from the dead.
The essence of our salvation is found in this phrase: Simul justus et pecator.
Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
If there is one single molecule in this universe running around loose, totally free of God’s sovereignty, then we have no guarantee that a single promise of God will ever be fulfilled.
Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.